A : Treatife o fGonfcience. f 81 walks, meats, fports, and the like: they yield no comfort to chofe that are Sedrid, or lick, or half-dead. But when the confci- ence is at peace,the foul is all in good health and fo all things are enjoyed with fweetnefr'e and comfort. Fourchly,It fweetneth evils to a man, as trouble, croffes, for. rows, affliaions. If a man have true peace in his confcience, it' comfortech him in them all. When things abroad do difquiet us, how comfortable is it to have lomething at home to cheat us ? fo when troubles and alliiftionswithout turmoil and vex us and adde forrow to furrow, then to have peace within, the peace of. confcience, . to allay all and'quiet all, what a happineffe is this ? When ficknefle and death cometh, what will a good confcience be worth then ? Sure,more then all the world betides. If one had all theworld, -he woulcIthen give it for a peaceable confci- ence. Nay, what think ye of judgement, and the tribunal of Chrilt "? Do but think what a good confcience will be worth then ? When "Paul was accufed and hardly thought of by force of the Corinthians; this was his comfort ; 1 know nothing by my [elf, faith his confcience : I count it a very fmal thing to be judged r C °r.4,, of you. Nay, he goeth further : His confcience telleth him -he 3'4' bath the Lord Jelus ( who jultifiech him) to judge him; he bath I a fweeter Judge then his own confcience, even his Saviour, to judge him. O there is so created comfort in the world like the comfort of a peaceable confcience. The heathen Menander could fay, Igoro7c ¿ma ct wniAlerts seós, confcience is a little pettie god. We may not give it faeh a big title : but this is molt certain ; The confcience is Gods echo of peace to the foul: in life, in death, in judgement it is unfpeakable comfort. Is there any then that want this ? Let them above all things Exerts labour to get it : It is more worth then all things elk. Whatever we neglect, let us not negleâ this. It is. fafer to neglect bodie, Lion, . health, meánes, maintenance, friends, and all that ever we have in the world then to negleft this. The more we have the worfe it is for us, if we have not this. Had we all this worlds good, itis like a (tone in a ferpents head or a toads head, or a pearl in an oylter; not our perfec}ion,but our difeafe. D4,,: Again,
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